{"id":44323,"date":"2025-09-26T09:19:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:19:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44323\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T09:19:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T09:19:06","slug":"white-house-backs-plan-to-install-tony-blair-as-leader-of-gaza","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/44323\/","title":{"rendered":"White House backs plan to install Tony Blair as leader of Gaza"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n  Under the plans, the former prime minister would reportedly lead a body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority (Gita) that would be Gaza\u2019s \u201csupreme political and legal authority\u201d for as long as five years and without any direct involvement of the Palestinian Authority (PA).\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  According to reports in Haaretz and the Times of Israel, the plan is modelled on the administrations that initially oversaw Timor-Leste and Kosovo\u2019s transitions to statehood and envisions \u201cthe eventual unifying of all the Palestinian territory under the PA\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25495678.labour-shambles---just-look-partys-liverpool-conference-guide\/?ref=ed_recent\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Labour are in shambles \u2013 just look at the party&#8217;s Liverpool conference guide<\/a>\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  Under the plan, Palestinians would not be made to leave the territory, as many had feared with previous Trump proposals to develop it as the \u201cGaza Reviera\u201d.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  If approved, Blair would head a secretariat of up to 25 people and chair a seven-person board to oversee an executive body running the territory.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  It would evidently spark controversy, with Blair resented by many Palestinians for his role in the Middle East \u2013 notably backing the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.\n<\/p>\n<p>\n  We previously reported on how <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thenational.scot\/news\/25422159.tony-blair-joins-white-house-meeting-future-gaza\/?ref=ed_direct\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Blair joined Trump in a White House meeting to discuss plans for the future of Gaza<\/a> in August.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Under the plans, the former prime minister would reportedly lead a body called the Gaza International Transitional Authority&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":44324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-44323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=44323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/44323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/44324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=44323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=44323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=44323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}